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Not sure who Doc Anderson is, but here is another take
on Joe Straus you may NOT have seen yet?

AN OPEN LETTER TO TEXAS HOUSE SPEAKER JOE STRAUS
FROM CONSERVATIVE STATE REPRESENTATIVE LEO BERMAN
http://news.navigator-news.com/component/content/article/6-politics/63-an-open-letter-to-texas-house-speaker-joe-straus-from-conservative-state-representative-leo-berman

Excerpt:

At the beginning of last session you and 10 of your cohort Republicans, RINOS would be the proper term, decided you did not want my good friend Tom Craddick, a solid conservative Speaker, to preside over the session. You met and voted among yourselves as to who would be your Speaker candidate.

It fell upon you since you were the least controversial although you were the one with the least service in the House. You had 11 votes but needed 65 more to make the 76 it takes to elect a Speaker.

You decided to go to the Democrats who eventually gave you the 65 votes to win. What did you give them? You gave them a promise not to bring legislation dealing with ILLEGAL ALIENS, PRO-LIFE ISSUES, or VOTER-ID to the House floor and that is exactly what happened during the session. The Democrats loved that deal because they opposed all three issues vehemently.

When I saw that no bills on illegal aliens were coming out of the State Affairs Committee Chaired by Rep. Burt Solomons, I did notice that Democrats were bringing bills to the floor that would have funneled millions of dollars directly to illegal aliens. I started to amend those bills immediately, with simple words which said, “These benefits are for U.S. citizens only”.

Excuse the term, but the Democrats went “nuts” over my amendments and Joe, you tried to come to their rescue. You came to my desk on the House floor and asked what you can do for me (like hearing one of my bills in Solomon’s committee) to get me to stop amending the Democrats’ bills. I could not believe what I heard from you. I asked you if you took the same oath of office that I did and then requested that you leave my desk quickly before I really got angry.

Finally, you single-handedly killed the Voter –ID Bill, a bill that 96% of Republicans in the 2008 Primary election voted to have considered in the next session.
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Please reconsider your position supporting Straus.

Nice post with specifics in a letter I would not have found otherwise. How can we not be influenced by that? Sounds like Strauss has a lot to do with the lack of conservative progress in Texas law. Why would anyone support that?

Doc Anderson is a conservative state rep from the Waco area. I cannot imagine he would not try hard to press for conservative goals, which will not include trying to compromise with Democrats.

So tillacum, should we now worry about Doc Anderson too? Is Doc actually supporting Strauss against true conservatives?, or is he only saying Strauss as a good old boy?

Thanks for the link and letter.

A lot of Conservatives in Texas do not realize that this is probably one of the most critical decisions to be made in the last 20 years. The State of Texas is facing a deficit of between $18 billion and $25 billion depending on who you believe.

I joked that Staus deserves to be speaker so that the deficit problems sink him, but it's really not a laughing matter. I have no doubt that in the fight over trying to fix the budget deficit, that there will be an assault on veterans' benefits, on hunters and fishermen, and on education.

There are plenty of people on the left, including some with an (R) next to their name, who are going to use the deficit as a means to further their agendas. It maybe something as innocent-sounding as an increase on hunting and fishing licenses, and other fees that end up going into the general fund. It maybe cuts in state employees who work with veterans. It might be hard to spot, but make no mistake, this is a golden opportunity for them. There are plenty of people who would love to raise the price on hunting and fishing out of reach of families. Then you have plenty of Democrats who would like to wreck our public schools however they can, because the dumber and less-educated the population is, the more likely they'll vote for Democrats. They want to keep people tied to welfare any way they can.

This upcoming legislature is going to be making decisions that will have serious impacts on the state for decades to come.